A fight between a pair of out-of-town coworkers this afternoon at Comfort Inn in Bethlehem Township, Pa., turned bloody after one of the men stabbed the other in the chest, according to township police.

Asani Elliott, 19, Brooklyn, N.Y., is charged with attempted homicide, police said. At 6:45 p.m. police expected him to be arraigned any minute.

The victim, Vincent Dukes, 23, of New York City, suffered a serious chest wound in the incident shortly after 1 p.m. at the hotel off Nazareth Pike (Route 191), according to police Sgt. Rick Blake.

The men were working for a company contracted with Major Energy Services, based out of Orangeburg, N.Y., according to police.

Mark Berger, a spokesman with the retail energy company, confirmed the men were not employees of Major Energy Services but were working through an outside contractor.

"We outsource our direct-to-consumer market," Berger said. "We need to do a complete investigation to know which organization these people were working for when they were representing us."

Blake said Dukes and Elliott had been involved in a fight at the Bethlehem Square shopping center across Highfield Drive from the hotel. Colleagues broke up the fight, but when the men came back to the Comfort Inn, 3191 Highfield Drive, they began arguing again, Blake said.

Elliott stabbed Dukes in the chest outside the inn with a serrated steak knife, according to Blake. He said authorities have the weapon they think was used in the assault. Elliott was taken into custody about a block from the hotel, according to Blake.

Dukes was taken to St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill for treatment. Blake said authorities thought he had suffered a partially collapsed lung in the attack. A nursing supervisor said Thursday evening she had no record of Dukes being treated, though another supervisor said earlier that the victim was undergoing treatment in the emergency department.